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by Richieb
Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:33 am
Forum: Engine/Intake/Exhaust
Topic: Engine misfire
Replies: 14
Views: 1384

Re: Engine misfire

Looks like a Scanner issue/code for some message it can't interpret in it's data base. Virtually all scanners can read the codes, or at least trap them as an issue. It's when the codes the manufacturers use for certain problems are not released by them, that you get numbers/cypher that is meaningles...
by Richieb
Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:44 am
Forum: Engine/Intake/Exhaust
Topic: Engine misfire
Replies: 14
Views: 1384

Re: Engine misfire

I'll bet it's the Cam angle sensor. Fir some reason, some mechanics nip the cable/wires that go to it when the change the belt. Usually the damage us at the back of the pulley, close to the sensor. Opel/Holden/Vauxhall 16v engines often have this damage after belt change. The cable is very close to ...
by Richieb
Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:09 am
Forum: Aftermarket and High Performance
Topic: RIM & TYRE CHANGING. Must read if considering.
Replies: 4
Views: 822

RIM & TYRE CHANGING. Must read if considering.

If you are changing rims or tyres from the normal on your car, then consider looking at this, and checking to see how it may change it for the worst.

http://www.club80-90syncro.co.uk/Syncro ... ulator.htm

It makes sense.
by Richieb
Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:02 am
Forum: Engine/Intake/Exhaust
Topic: What is wrong with my 1.5L engine?
Replies: 10
Views: 1005

Re: What is wrong with my 1.5L engine?

Jeez, that took some cobbling together!

Here's a link with a good way to see if you have the right tyres and rims that don't alter the cars performance.

http://www.club80-90syncro.co.uk/Syncro ... ulator.htm
by Richieb
Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:01 am
Forum: Engine/Intake/Exhaust
Topic: What is wrong with my 1.5L engine?
Replies: 10
Views: 1005

Re: What is wrong with my 1.5L engine?

Kinda right there, effort at greater distance from centre... You're on ya own with the bowlin' ball, am not catchin it!!! If I remember right, and I can explain it. Bear in mind that tyre circumfrence(like any circle) is 3.142(or Pi to more accurate if you care to) x Diameter. Diameter is 2x radius....
by Richieb
Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:39 pm
Forum: Engine/Intake/Exhaust
Topic: No Heat
Replies: 7
Views: 646

Re: No Heat

Yeah, the only reason Normally, people do the "by-pass" trick is to keep coolant in the engine when the heater core has developed a leak they dont want to pay for to get fixed. By the sound of it, this one has a leak! Oldest trick in the book. It sure beats running the coolant out, and overheating t...
by Richieb
Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:10 pm
Forum: Engine/Intake/Exhaust
Topic: Fuel Pressure Regulator lag. A15 SOHC
Replies: 47
Views: 5681

Re: Fuel Pressure Regulator lag. A15 SOHC

Yes, sorry about the ambiguity.
by Richieb
Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:05 pm
Forum: Engine/Intake/Exhaust
Topic: Injectors flow rates
Replies: 26
Views: 2600

Re: Injectors flow rates

Looks like 0280150996 posess the right flow and impedance, and looking here http://cn.oemol.com/oem/offerdetail/en_ ... ?keywords= seem to be correct dimensions too.

Spray pattern am not sure about though.
by Richieb
Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:59 pm
Forum: Engine/Intake/Exhaust
Topic: Injectors flow rates
Replies: 26
Views: 2600

Re: Injectors flow rates

I think the best way is to establish what the injectors were from factory, then cross match them on the site. I have a link here to a site for Bosch ones.. http://www.injectorcleaning.co.uk/flow.htm Dimensions are important to remember though. The fuel trim will adjust it only to a certain degree if...
by Richieb
Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:35 pm
Forum: Engine/Intake/Exhaust
Topic: What is wrong with my 1.5L engine?
Replies: 10
Views: 1005

Re: What is wrong with my 1.5L engine?

Best thing for feel is blue-print the head and mani's. Bin the oem manifold, its a terrible bit of work. Match the mani's to the ports. Actually, plugs can help in power "production" by the way. Good, clean spread of 'clean' ignition across the rev range is an advantage in forward momentum. Pulls th...
by Richieb
Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:54 pm
Forum: Engine/Intake/Exhaust
Topic: Fuel Pressure Regulator lag. A15 SOHC
Replies: 47
Views: 5681

Re: Fuel Pressure Regulator lag. A15 SOHC

That's what I was thinking. I have an LM2, which I have to figure out how to put this in before the cat as yet..!! I feel the ECU has been seriously pulled right back to eco friendly mode, so the plan is to just force its hand a little. I have 3 of the MAP sensors in the garage, and all exhibit the ...
by Richieb
Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:59 am
Forum: Member's Cars and specs
Topic: Matiz/Spark Turbo
Replies: 16
Views: 10169

Re: Matiz/Spark Turbo

What happened to this?

No more noise etc from, or about it.

Am considering a similar toy project.
by Richieb
Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:49 am
Forum: Engine/Intake/Exhaust
Topic: Fuel Pressure Regulator lag. A15 SOHC
Replies: 47
Views: 5681

Fuel Pressure Regulator lag. A15 SOHC

I have been studying the engine set-up, and noted that the FPR on the fuel rail is controlled by the engine vaccuum from the end of the inlet manifold on the A15 SOHC engine. This vaccuum pulls the Fuel pressure regulator to low pressure fuelling at idle and over-run. (some enviro experiment for GM/...
by Richieb
Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:19 am
Forum: Engine/Intake/Exhaust
Topic: Ganing more power with a really simple mod
Replies: 25
Views: 3485

Re: Ganing more power with a really simple mod

A15 engine works with this mod. Permanently I wired the Brown/white stripe to the Black. Done, and it works. Runs well with 91 octane unleaded as a 95 to the ECU. When price of ethanol 10% petrol gets cheaper, which is supposedly 95!!!, I will use it, but at the moment I get far more from the ULP91 ...